Full Text of HB2297 103rd General Assembly
HB2297 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2023 and 2024 HB2297 Introduced 2/14/2023___________, by SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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5 ILCS 410/5 |
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5 ILCS 410/15 |
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Amends the State Employment Records Act. Provides that State agencies when collecting and reporting data on employment records must include specified data on persons who identify as non-binary or gender non-conforming. Effective July 1, 2025.
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning State government.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The State Employment Records Act is amended by | 5 | | changing Sections 5 and 15 as follows:
| 6 | | (5 ILCS 410/5)
| 7 | | Sec. 5. Findings and purpose. The General Assembly hereby
| 8 | | finds as follows:
| 9 | | (a) Efficient, responsive, and accountable disbursement of | 10 | | State
services is best facilitated by a diversified State work | 11 | | force which
reflects the diversity of the tax-paying | 12 | | constituency the State work force
is employed to serve.
| 13 | | (b) The purpose of this Act is to require and develop | 14 | | within
existing State administrative processes a comprehensive | 15 | | procedure to
collect, classify, maintain, and publish, for | 16 | | State and public use,
information that provides the General | 17 | | Assembly and the People of this State
with adequate | 18 | | information of the number of minorities, women, persons who | 19 | | identify as non-binary or gender non-conforming, and persons | 20 | | with physical disabilities employed by State government within | 21 | | the State work force.
| 22 | | (c) To provide State officials, administrators and the | 23 | | People
of the State with information to help guide efforts to |
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| 1 | | achieve a more
diversified State work force, the total number | 2 | | of persons employed within
the State work force shall be | 3 | | tabulated in a comprehensive manner to
provide meaningful | 4 | | review of the number and percentage of minorities, women,
| 5 | | persons who identify as non-binary or gender non-conforming, | 6 | | and persons with physical disabilities employed as part of the | 7 | | State work force.
| 8 | | (Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15.)
| 9 | | (5 ILCS 410/15)
| 10 | | Sec. 15. Reported information.
| 11 | | (a) State agencies shall, if necessary, consult with the | 12 | | Office of the
Comptroller and the
Governor's Office of | 13 | | Management and Budget to confirm the accuracy of information
| 14 | | required by this Act. State agencies shall collect and | 15 | | maintain information
and publish reports including but not | 16 | | limited to the following information
arranged in the indicated | 17 | | categories:
| 18 | | (i) the total number of persons employed by the agency | 19 | | who are part of
the State work force, as defined by this | 20 | | Act, and the number and statistical
percentage of women, | 21 | | minorities, persons who identify persons who identify as | 22 | | non-binary or gender non-conforming, and persons with | 23 | | physical disabilities employed
within the agency work | 24 | | force;
| 25 | | (ii) the total number of persons employed within the |
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| 1 | | agency work force
receiving levels of State remuneration | 2 | | within incremental levels of
$10,000, and the number and | 3 | | statistical percentage of minorities, women, persons who | 4 | | identify persons who identify as non-binary or gender | 5 | | non-conforming, and
persons with physical disabilities in | 6 | | the agency work force receiving levels of
State | 7 | | remuneration within incremented levels of $10,000;
| 8 | | (iii) the number of open positions of employment or | 9 | | advancement in the
agency work force, reported on a fiscal | 10 | | year basis;
| 11 | | (iv) the number and percentage of open positions of | 12 | | employment or
advancement in the agency work force filled | 13 | | by minorities, women, persons who persons who identify as | 14 | | non-binary or gender non-conforming, and
persons with | 15 | | physical disabilities, reported on a fiscal year basis;
| 16 | | (v) the total number of persons employed within the | 17 | | agency work force
as professionals, and the number and | 18 | | percentage of minorities, women, persons who identify as | 19 | | non-binary or gender non-conforming, and
persons with | 20 | | physical disabilities employed within the agency work | 21 | | force as
professional employees; and
| 22 | | (vi) the total number of persons employed within the | 23 | | agency work force
as contractual service employees, and | 24 | | the number and percentage of minorities,
women, persons | 25 | | who identify as non-binary or gender non-conforming, and | 26 | | persons with physical disabilities employed within the |
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| 1 | | agency work force as
contractual services employees.
| 2 | | (b) The numbers and percentages of minorities required to | 3 | | be reported by
this Section shall be identified by the | 4 | | following categories: | 5 | | (1) American Indian or Alaska Native (a person having | 6 | | origins in any of the original peoples of North and South | 7 | | America, including Central America, and who maintains | 8 | | tribal affiliation or community attachment). | 9 | | (2) Asian (a person having origins in any of the | 10 | | original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the | 11 | | Indian subcontinent, including, but not limited to, | 12 | | Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, | 13 | | the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam). | 14 | | (3) Black or African American (a person having origins | 15 | | in any of the black racial groups of Africa). | 16 | | (4) Hispanic or Latino (a person of Cuban, Mexican, | 17 | | Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish | 18 | | culture or origin, regardless of race). | 19 | | (5) Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (a | 20 | | person having origins in any of the original peoples of | 21 | | Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands). | 22 | | Data concerning women and persons who identify as | 23 | | non-binary or gender non-conforming shall be
reported on a | 24 | | minority and nonminority basis.
The numbers and percentages of | 25 | | persons with physical disabilities required to be
reported | 26 | | under this Section shall be identified by categories as man, |
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| 1 | | woman, and persons who identify as non-binary or gender | 2 | | non-conforming male and
female .
| 3 | | (c) To accomplish consistent and uniform classification | 4 | | and collection of
information from each State agency, and to | 5 | | ensure full compliance and that all
required information is | 6 | | provided, the Index Department of the Office of the
Secretary | 7 | | of State, in consultation with the Department of Human Rights, | 8 | | the
Department of Central Management Services, and the Office | 9 | | of the Comptroller,
shall develop appropriate forms to be used | 10 | | by all State agencies subject to the
reporting requirements of | 11 | | this Act.
| 12 | | All State agencies shall make the reports required by this | 13 | | Act using the
forms developed under this subsection. The | 14 | | reports must be certified and
signed by an official of the | 15 | | agency who is responsible for the information
provided.
| 16 | | (Source: P.A. 102-465, eff. 1-1-22 .)
| 17 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, | 18 | | 2025.
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